How To Install python-beautifulsoup on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-beautifulsoup on Debian 9. python-beautifulsoup is error-tolerant HTML parser for Python

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-beautifulsoup on Debian 9.

What is python-beautifulsoup

python-beautifulsoup is:

The BeautifulSoup class turns arbitrarily bad HTML into a tree-like nested tag-soup list of Tag objects and text snippets. A Tag object corresponds to an HTML tag. It knows about the HTML tag’s attributes, and contains a representation of everything contained between the original tag and its closing tag (if any). It’s easy to extract Tags that meet certain criteria.

There are three methods to install python-beautifulsoup on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-beautifulsoup Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python-beautifulsoup using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python-beautifulsoup

Install python-beautifulsoup Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python-beautifulsoup using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python-beautifulsoup

Install python-beautifulsoup Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install python-beautifulsoup using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-beautifulsoup

How To Uninstall python-beautifulsoup on Debian 9

To uninstall only the python-beautifulsoup package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-beautifulsoup

Uninstall python-beautifulsoup And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-beautifulsoup and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-beautifulsoup

Remove python-beautifulsoup Configurations and Data

To remove python-beautifulsoup configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-beautifulsoup

Remove python-beautifulsoup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python-beautifulsoup configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-beautifulsoup

Dependencies

python-beautifulsoup have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-beautifulsoup package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.